Mexico : biography of power : a history of modern Mexico, 1810-1996 / Enrique Krauze ; translated by Hank Heifetz
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers , c1997.Edition: 1st edDescription: 872 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780060163259
- LAS 972.04 KRA
- F1231.5 .K72 1997
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Latin American Studies | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | LAS 972.04 KRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 017160 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [799]-854) and index.
Enrique Krauze presents the definitive portrait of modern Mexico - its religion, culture, politics, and more. In a country where the traditional concentration of power is in the caudillo or leader, Krauze's insights into the personalities of these figures become compelling insights into Mexico's history. The author begins with the late-nineteenth-century leaders like Porfirio Diaz, and moves through the Revolution and the agony of political unrest that continued through the 1940s. He then describes the development of the modern state and the contemporary period, from the presidencies of Camacho through Salinas.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
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